Federal jury convicts South Euclid woman of defrauding banks

A South Euclid woman has been convicted of helping to use other
people’s identities to defraud three banks of $43,000.
Angelique Bankston, 41, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury in Cleveland on 23 counts, including bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Bankston and co-defendant Jocelyn Hale, 31, of Cleveland, defrauded Citizens Bank, Lending Club Corp. and Wells Fargo Bank, according to the July indictment.
Bankston will be sentenced April 23.
Hale previously pleaded guilty to nine counts.
She will be sentenced Dec. 4.